Table 4.

Scores on psychosocial developmental domains: comparison of survivors of childhood DTC with survivors of other childhood cancers (both diagnosed age ≥12 years old).

	DTC survivors	Childhood cancer survivors (CCS)
		Total CCS	P value	Leukemia/lymphoma	P value	Solid tumors	P value	Brain tumors	P value
n	35	76		45		23		8
Social development†	22 (21, 23)	21 (19, 22)	0.005	20 (18, 22)	0.001	22 (19, 23)	0.164	21.5 (20.3, 22.8)	0.391
Autonomy development‡	9 (8, 10)	9 (8, 10)	0.688	10 (8, 10)	0.753	9 (8, 10.5)	0.677	9 (7.5, 11)	0.890
Psychosexual development§	8 (7, 8)	7 (6, 8)	0.020	7 (6, 8)	0.040	7 (6, 8)	0.083	5.5 (4.3, 8)	0.097

Scores are shown as median (p25, p27). Comparisons between DTC survivors and other groups were performed using Mann–Whitney U tests. Higher scores indicate earlier achievement or achievement of more psychosocial developmental milestones; ^†scale ranges 12–24; ^‡scale ranges 6–12; ^§scale ranges 4–8. Missing values were excluded from statistical testing (pairwise deletion). P values in bold indicate a significant value (P < 0.01).

CCS, childhood cancer survivors; DTC, differentiated thyroid carcinoma.